'Yet it did seem ... as if fantastic hope could take as strong a hold as Fact' - Hard Times

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

PS

‎70s Bowie is Opening Ceremony, 80s Bowie is Closing Ceremony. All putatively/aspirationally
socialist pop ever is Opening Ceremony, all unabashedly consumerist and
passive pop ever is Closing Ceremony. The distinctions have been there
for decades, of course; we just haven't had such a
universally-understandable distinction until now.